Luxury ampel ' — the principle of choice of plants and method of planting

After watching the beautiful pictures floriferous plants in hanging baskets on the pages of magazines and websites, tried to create something similar. It would seem that everything is simple, grow or purchase seedlings of desired colors, put in a pot, hang, water, feed. In reality, it wasn't what I expected.

Seedlings of blue Lobelia and white petunias cascading and purple I grew from seed. The pot took a 3-liter, filled with vegetable earth. Knowing what plants grow well, planted 4 petunias and a few clumps of Lobelia. As a result of abundant flowering is not received, the pot was visible the whole season (hoping that the shoots of petunias will cover it up). How and what to plant seedlings of flowers to get a chic ampel'? What plants can I use?





Luxury ampel'

The principle of selection of plants for hanging cuspids first you need to visualize ampel', which you want to see in hanging baskets, to decide on the color scheme and volume. Seedlings of desirable plants can be purchased ready-made (expensive and not always available what you want) or to grow from seed (much less troublesome, but exciting).

The principle of the landing of the following: in the Central part should be placed low plants, with erect stems, such as hybrid fuchsias, pelargonium plumeleteer, stunted balsams, etc.





Fuchsia is suitable for filling the Central part of ampela

The edges or from one side of the planter, to your taste, arrange the plants with cascading shoots, perhaps with interesting foliage color, for example, dichondra or everlasting petiolate.

The remaining voids can be filled with petunias, matching or contrasting in color, good in commercially available varieties and hydrides with various shades. Unobtrusive and at the same time looks impressive, Lobelia erinus, giving the composition a light, airy.





Petunia is used to fill the voids

Create a mini flower garden in amelioratory flower pot hanger flower garden is suitable enough. Much better to use a wire basket with a diameter of about 50 cm (available in any gardening store or made from a suitable material). In order for the basket tipped over in the process of planting, you can put it on a flower pot of appropriate diameter or bucket. Seedlings for 2 hours prior to transplant should be watered abundantly.





Wall baskets are laid out with moss

The walls of the basket must be put sphagnum or other moss. On the bottom to install the stand from the flower pot, it will retain a portion of water when watering, the substrate will not quickly dry up.





At the bottom of set tray flower pot

Fill the basket prepared ground mixture. Land plants selected for the sides (in our case, this verbena and everlasting). Put another layer of moss. To plant the plants to fill the volume (in this example, petunias and Lobelia).





On the sides landed.

If there are voids in the sides of the basket, they should be tightly plugged with pieces of moss. Otherwise, the land will sleep. To fill up the basket with soil.





Circle planted Lobelia

Now it is planting time in Central plants. Our photo is of pelargonium and fuchsia, their shoots are best to start so that they were dangling over the edge of the basket. The remaining seats can be supplemented with Lobelia and fill up the earth.





Located in the heart of pelargonium and fuchsia

After the completion of the planting composition should be watered. 3-5 days created beauty is better to hold it in partial shade, the plants have adapted. In the master-class was used 5 tsminy petiolate, 3 marigolds, 3 plusline pelargonium, Lobelia 15, 3 fuchsia, 6 petunias.





Filling voids, podsypaya land

Hazelle in hanging pots in hot weather will dry out quickly, so watering will have daily and possibly twice daily, preferably in the morning and the evening. It is undesirable that the water falling on the leaves, it is convenient to use a small watering can with a long spout.





Watering is required daily

Feed composition need comprehensive weekly with liquid fertilizer for flowering plants. To maintain tidiness and prolong flowering wilted inflorescence and flowers should be promptly removed.





Removal of faded inflorescences and flowers

Several variations



Bright basket arrangement

Used in composition: 3 blue bell (Campanula fragilis), 1 fuchsia, 1 violet, yellow, 6 Lobelia "Cascade Mix", 6 white and red busy Lizzie (Impatiens), 2 gerulaitis yellow Bidens (Bidens ferulifolia), 3 verbena "Blaze".





Yellow-purple duet

Used in songs: violets 3 purple, 3 yellow Buttercup, 1 white upright geranium, 3 dichroic Ragwort (Senecio bicolor), 3 blue Lobelia "Cambridge Blue".

I hope that next season your basket composition will be higher praise.

Source: 101dizain.ru

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